Each year the Burr and Burton Theater Program produces a Fall Production; a Traditional Play and a Film
All resources and information for this production can be found on this page.
OUR FIRST READ THROUGH IS TOMORROW 8/29 at 3PM-6PM FULL COMPANY AND UNDERSTUDIES
HARVEY CAST
Elwood - Koben Pottala
Dr Sanderson - Colvin Hathaway
Wilson - Riley Vogel
Dr Chulmey - Garrett Sands
Judge Gaffney - Miles Allen
EJ Lofgren - Daniel Jackson
Veta - Olivia Saunders
Myrtle Mae - Zoe Grigsby
Mrs Chumley - Greta Schuab
Mrs Chauvenet - Izzy Shapero
Nurse Kelly - Sophie Jager
UNDERSTUDIES
Elwood - Valentine Giesey
Dr Sanderson - Riley Vogel
Wilson - Matt Picakrski
Dr Chumley - Daniel Jackson
Judge Gaffney - TBD
EJ Lofgren - Aiden Kennedy
Veta - Cece Kersten
Myrtle Mae - Louisa Hausslein
Mrs Chumley - Zoie Brooks
Mrs Chauvenet - Alex Schaffer
Nurse Kelly - Hannah McArdle
Harvey - Casting Notice Harvey - Casting Notice Company - Burr and Burton Theater Department, Producer - Burr and Burton Creative Arts Department, Director - Jim Raposa, Assistant Director, Costumer - Claudia Shell-Raposa, Set Designer - Paul Molinelli, Lighting Designer - Stuart Duke
AUDITIONS FOR FALL PLAY AND FILM Information meeting
August 21, Monday, 6:00pm-TBD- Riley Center for the Arts
Audition
August 24, Thursday, 1:00pm- 4:00pm-Riley Center for the Arts
Call Backs
August 25, Friday, 1:00pm-5:00pm- Riley Center for the Arts
Final Callbacks (If Needed)/READ THROUGH
August 28, Monday, 3:00pm-6:00pm-Riley Center for the Arts
HARVEY Audition Sides and Script can be found at: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9U5p2PyZyUXWU55dU1XeGRkMHc PRODUCTION DESCRIPTION Harvey, a Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by Mary Chase, is the story of a perfect gentleman, Elwood P. Dowd, and his best friend, Harvey -- a pooka, who is a six-foot tall, invisible rabbit. When Elwood begins introducing Harvey around town, his embarrassed sister, Veta Louise, and her daughter, Myrtle Mae, determine to commit Elwood to a sanitarium. A mistake is made, however, and Veta is committed rather than Elwood! Eventually, the mistake is realized, and a frantic search begins for Elwood and the invisible pooka, which ends with Elwood appearing, voluntarily, at the sanitarium. In the end, however, Veta realizes that she loves her brother and his invisible his best friend just as they are, and doesn’t want either of them to change.
Rehearsals are traditionally Mon-Thur- 3:00-6:00pm.
Performances run:
November 8,9,10,11 2017 at 6:30pm
BACKGROUND INFORMATION Harvey is a 1944 play by the American playwright Mary Chase. Chase received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work in 1945. It has been adapted for film and television several times, most notably in a 1950 film starring James Stewart.
Plot
Elwood P. Dowd is an affable man who claims to have an unseen (and presumably imaginary) friend Harvey — whom Elwood describes as a six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch tall pooka resembling an anthropomorphic rabbit. Elwood introduces Harvey to everyone he meets. His social-climbing sister, Veta, increasingly finds his eccentric behavior embarrassing. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium. When they arrive at the sanitarium, a comedy of errors ensues. The young Dr. Sanderson mistakenly commits Veta instead of Elwood, but when the truth comes out, the search is on for Elwood and his invisible companion. When Elwood shows up at the sanitarium looking for his lost friend Harvey, it seems that the mild-mannered Elwood's delusion has had a strange influence on the staff, including sanitarium director Dr. Chumley. Only just before Elwood is to be given an injection that will make him into a "perfectly normal human being, and you know what bastards they are!" (in the words of a taxi cab driver who has become involved in the proceedings) does Veta realize that she would rather have Elwood the same as he has always been — carefree and kind — even if it means living with Harvey.
wikipedia CHARACTER DESCRIPTION/SCENE BREAKDOWN
Scenes
Act I
Scene 1 – The Dowd Library (Myrtle, Veta, Miss Johnson, Elwood, Mrs. Chauvenet, Maid)
The only character to appear in all scenes is Elwood. Female Ethel Chauvenet - an old friend of the family. She is a member of the town's social circle, which Veta wants Myrtle to break into.
Betty Chumley (the doctor's wife) - more concerned with socializing than with science: told that her husband has to examine a patient, she tells him, "Give a little quick diagnosis, Willie - we don't want to be late to the party."
Nurse Ruth Kelly - An attractive young nurse with a crush on the handsome but obtuse psychiatrist Dr. Sanderson. She is charmed by Elwood's courtly ways.
Myrtle Mae Simmons - Myrtle lives with her widowed mother Veta in her Uncle Elwood's home. Unmarried and eager to meet eligible men but believes her uncle's peculiar behavior is ruining her chances.
Veta Louise Simmons - Elwood's sister Veta is becoming undone by her brother's relationship with the invisible Harvey. She decides to have Elwood committed to a sanitarium to spare the family any further embarrassment. However the easily flustered Veta ends up being committed herself when she confesses that she too feels that she sometimes "sees" Harvey.
Male Dr. William B. Chumley - an esteemed psychiatrist and the head of the sanitarium, Chumley's Rest, to which Veta has Elwood taken. He is a difficult, exacting man, feared by his subordinates, unwilling to tolerate his mistakes.
Elwood P. Dowd - the central character of the play, a friendly eccentric who spends his days and nights in the taverns of his unnamed town. Elwood's best friend is Harvey, an invisible six and a half-foot-tall rabbit.
Judge Omar Gaffney - an old family friend of the Dowd's, a representative of the people in town who are accustomed to seeing Elwood talking to Harvey and who do not think anything of it.
Dr. Lyman Sanderson - young, but very qualified psychiatrist - Dr. Chumley has picked him out of the twelve possible assistants that he tried. He is just as infatuated with Nurse Kelly as she is with him, but he only reveals his concern indirectly.
Wilson - the muscle of Chumley's Rest, a devoted orderly responsible for handling the patients who will not cooperate voluntarily.
Supporting Roles E. J. Lofgren - Lofgren is the cab driver who regularly takes patients to and from Chumley's Rest - and sees the negative results-one scene
"Cateress"/"Maid" - Works for the Simmons household-one scene
All resources and information for this production can be found on this page.
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION BELOW
PLEASE CONFIRM THAT YOU ACCEPT YOUR ROLE @ jraposa@burrburton.org
OUR FIRST READ THROUGH IS TOMORROW 8/29 at 3PM-6PM FULL COMPANY AND UNDERSTUDIES
HARVEY CAST
Elwood - Koben Pottala
Dr Sanderson - Colvin Hathaway
Wilson - Riley Vogel
Dr Chulmey - Garrett Sands
Judge Gaffney - Miles Allen
EJ Lofgren - Daniel Jackson
Veta - Olivia Saunders
Myrtle Mae - Zoe Grigsby
Mrs Chumley - Greta Schuab
Mrs Chauvenet - Izzy Shapero
Nurse Kelly - Sophie Jager
UNDERSTUDIES
Elwood - Valentine Giesey
Dr Sanderson - Riley Vogel
Wilson - Matt Picakrski
Dr Chumley - Daniel Jackson
Judge Gaffney - TBD
EJ Lofgren - Aiden Kennedy
Veta - Cece Kersten
Myrtle Mae - Louisa Hausslein
Mrs Chumley - Zoie Brooks
Mrs Chauvenet - Alex Schaffer
Nurse Kelly - Hannah McArdle
FILM
CAST OF FALL FILM WILL COME FROM BILL MUENCH
Fall Play
Fall Film
Harvey - Casting Notice
Company - Burr and Burton Theater Department, Producer - Burr and Burton Creative Arts Department, Director - Jim Raposa, Assistant Director, Costumer - Claudia Shell-Raposa, Set Designer - Paul Molinelli, Lighting Designer - Stuart Duke
AUDITIONS FOR FALL PLAY AND FILM
Information meeting
Audition
Call Backs
Final Callbacks (If Needed)/READ THROUGH
HARVEY Audition Sides and Script can be found at:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9U5p2PyZyUXWU55dU1XeGRkMHc
PRODUCTION DESCRIPTION
Harvey, a Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by Mary Chase, is the story of a perfect gentleman, Elwood P. Dowd, and his best friend, Harvey -- a pooka, who is a six-foot tall, invisible rabbit. When Elwood begins introducing Harvey around town, his embarrassed sister, Veta Louise, and her daughter, Myrtle Mae, determine to commit Elwood to a sanitarium. A mistake is made, however, and Veta is committed rather than Elwood! Eventually, the mistake is realized, and a frantic search begins for Elwood and the invisible pooka, which ends with Elwood appearing, voluntarily, at the sanitarium. In the end, however, Veta realizes that she loves her brother and his invisible his best friend just as they are, and doesn’t want either of them to change.
Read more: http://stageagent.com/shows/play/3841/harvey#ixzz4lCttbiV9
REHEARSAL AND PRODUCTION DATES
Rehearsals begin:
Performances run:
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Harvey is a 1944 play by the American playwright Mary Chase. Chase received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work in 1945. It has been adapted for film and television several times, most notably in a 1950 film starring James Stewart.
Plot
Elwood P. Dowd is an affable man who claims to have an unseen (and presumably imaginary) friend Harvey — whom Elwood describes as a six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch tall pooka resembling an anthropomorphic rabbit. Elwood introduces Harvey to everyone he meets. His social-climbing sister, Veta, increasingly finds his eccentric behavior embarrassing. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium. When they arrive at the sanitarium, a comedy of errors ensues. The young Dr. Sanderson mistakenly commits Veta instead of Elwood, but when the truth comes out, the search is on for Elwood and his invisible companion. When Elwood shows up at the sanitarium looking for his lost friend Harvey, it seems that the mild-mannered Elwood's delusion has had a strange influence on the staff, including sanitarium director Dr. Chumley. Only just before Elwood is to be given an injection that will make him into a "perfectly normal human being, and you know what bastards they are!" (in the words of a taxi cab driver who has become involved in the proceedings) does Veta realize that she would rather have Elwood the same as he has always been — carefree and kind — even if it means living with Harvey.
wikipedia
CHARACTER DESCRIPTION/SCENE BREAKDOWN
Scenes
Act I
Act II
Act III – Chumley's Rest (Chumley, Wilson, Myrtle, Judge, Sanderson, Kelly, Veta, Elwood, Lofgren)
The only character to appear in all scenes is Elwood.
Female
Ethel Chauvenet - an old friend of the family. She is a member of the town's social circle, which Veta wants Myrtle to break into.
Betty Chumley (the doctor's wife) - more concerned with socializing than with science: told that her husband has to examine a patient, she tells him, "Give a little quick diagnosis, Willie - we don't want to be late to the party."
Nurse Ruth Kelly - An attractive young nurse with a crush on the handsome but obtuse psychiatrist Dr. Sanderson. She is charmed by Elwood's courtly ways.
Myrtle Mae Simmons - Myrtle lives with her widowed mother Veta in her Uncle Elwood's home. Unmarried and eager to meet eligible men but believes her uncle's peculiar behavior is ruining her chances.
Veta Louise Simmons - Elwood's sister Veta is becoming undone by her brother's relationship with the invisible Harvey. She decides to have Elwood committed to a sanitarium to spare the family any further embarrassment. However the easily flustered Veta ends up being committed herself when she confesses that she too feels that she sometimes "sees" Harvey.
Male
Dr. William B. Chumley - an esteemed psychiatrist and the head of the sanitarium, Chumley's Rest, to which Veta has Elwood taken. He is a difficult, exacting man, feared by his subordinates, unwilling to tolerate his mistakes.
Elwood P. Dowd - the central character of the play, a friendly eccentric who spends his days and nights in the taverns of his unnamed town. Elwood's best friend is Harvey, an invisible six and a half-foot-tall rabbit.
Judge Omar Gaffney - an old family friend of the Dowd's, a representative of the people in town who are accustomed to seeing Elwood talking to Harvey and who do not think anything of it.
Dr. Lyman Sanderson - young, but very qualified psychiatrist - Dr. Chumley has picked him out of the twelve possible assistants that he tried. He is just as infatuated with Nurse Kelly as she is with him, but he only reveals his concern indirectly.
Wilson - the muscle of Chumley's Rest, a devoted orderly responsible for handling the patients who will not cooperate voluntarily.
Supporting Roles
E. J. Lofgren - Lofgren is the cab driver who regularly takes patients to and from Chumley's Rest - and sees the negative results-one scene
"Cateress"/"Maid" - Works for the Simmons household-one scene
Lapin - Real Estate Agent - one scene
HARVEY Audition Sides and Script can be found at:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9U5p2PyZyUXWU55dU1XeGRkMHc
jraposa@burrburton.org
I am very excited to see you all at the meeting and auditions and if you have any questions, please email me at: Jraposa@burrburton.orgScenes
FILM PROJECT
TBASynopsis:
Character Descriptions:
All actors must email acceptance of being cast to:
jraposa@burrburton.org